Well HELLO Iron Age roundhouses 👋 How very lovely to see you!! 😍 #Archaeology #Durotriges26

Some good news for Hammers fans. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

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Fascism in action.

Site briefing at #Durotriges26 Discussing strategy for the rest of the day (or trying to work out what it is we've found) Lots of blobby, wibbly wobbly and downright weird features to investigate whilst the rain holds off (for a bit)

The US has the highest prison population per capita of any country in then world, despite a falling crime rate. Not coincidentally, Black Americans make up 42% of the prison population, despite only forming 14% of the population. But then if you're a White Supremacist, this makes perfect sense.

JD Vance and the United States have no right to lecture the UK on law enforcement or how to police. Sort your own house out.

There are going to be a lot of these '10th anniversary of the referendum' pieces in the next few weeks - my own will be in the next @bylinetimes.bsky.social - but this by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social sets a very high bar: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

After a couple of frustrating days of rain , a great day today at #Durotriges26. Clearing clay to hopefully reveal the chalk and ditch beneath.

Week one of #Durotriges26 is done (already??? 😲) Time to celebrate in the Big Dig taproom Cheers and happy weekend from the team #FridayFeeling 🍻

Introducing Edie, our new social media officer for #Durotriges26 www.instagram.com/reel/DZK4fvE... www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bq4... Catch videos of everyday life on this year's dig over on Instagram and Facebook @Durotrigesbigdig #Archaeology

A better day weather-wise at #Durotriges26 Huzzah !! Now, let's start digging out an Iron Age boundary ditch 😊

Horse mandible in an Iron Age ditch The Durotriges are back 🥳 #Durotriges26 late on a #FindsFriday

The best archaeological festures are always those that disappear out at the end of the trench 😲😲 #Durotriges26

This is something the Victorians understood: that democracy is dangerously vulnerable to plutocracy, and that it needs to build defences against that. Our defences are in tatters. Rebuilding them is one of the most urgent tasks facing our politics.

Time to ban x/grok from the UK.

“Nowak murder: police accused of ‘anti-white bias’ five times more likely to stop black people”. Across England, black people are seven times more likely to die than white people, when the police use restraint during an incident affecting them. #twotierpolicing www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Is the rain finally moving on ? Let's hope we can get digging some more features tomorrow #Durotriges26

Bring. In. A. Cap. On. Donations. £15m given to Reform by just one crypto billionaire in the past year. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics

According to an ex CEO of an NHS health trust, NHS staff wearing a “free Palestine” badge is a political act, but wearing a rainbow lanyard or a “black lives matter” badge isn’t political. I’m sure that will be reassuring for the 1 in 17 working people in England who work for the NHS.

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I mean, the UK government barred me from speaking to a conference that they literally invited me to speak at and tried to ruin my career because I retweeted SuperTanskii, called Nadine Dorries a car crash, and called Rees Mogg a haunted pencil. Bit nobody can ban Farage from inciting violence?

The death of Henry Nowak was a terrible tragedy and needs urgent investigation. But it’s worth remembering that 197 Black British people have died “following contact with the police” since 1990 and Nigel Farage hasn’t commented on any of them. Farage is doing what every far-right politician does.

One of our favourite recreations of the Iron Age is this image of Llanmelin hillfort #Monmouthshire showing people racing to get behind the security of palisade and gate Painted on the eve of a world war and echoing themes of safety and shelter © Alan Sorrell 1940 #HillfortsWednesday

Morning. Are Thunderbirds Go for today @durotrigesdig.bsky.social ?

Follow me, follow Down to the hollow And there let us wallow In glorious mud #Durotriges26

Glad you could join us today Miles! Hope you enjoyed it (and please bring better weather next time 🤣) #Durotriges26

The guy who says "nobody wants to live next door to a Romanian" has a lot of gall to use a British-Polish person as human Reichstag fire.

Durotriges Big Dig 26 day 1 "before the rain came". Special archaeology sniffer dog deployed to find the archaeology. @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

Fantastic news!

And Justin Webb on the Today programme was putting Farage’s odious “talking points” about this murder, to the minister this morning. This is how far-right views are normalised by the media.

well worth a watch

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England just had its warmest spring on record. The record was last set in spring 2025. Before that, spring 2024. 9 of the 10 warmest springs have occurred since 2007. It's almost like there's a long-term driver causing this... www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

The blood on this man’s hands. Determined to prevent a deal with Iran. Determined to eliminate Palestinians. Determined to kill Palestinian statehood. Determined to drag the wider region into a spiraling circle of death. The war criminal of our era. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Happy 1st June! Stats for May's weather in Dorchester are mind boggling. Mean Temp of 15.2°C, with 25th the hottest day at 32.1°C, equal 2nd warmest temp ever recorded by me. A run of 4 consecutive days above 30, & 9 days above 25°C. But another 9 cool days when max temps didn't get above 18.8°C 1/2

A few flowers seen around Poundbury, Dorset this afternoon. Bee Orchids showing well (and popping up in new places), plus a new site for Stemless Thistle. Hop Trefoil having a good year, as is Kidney Vetch. #PoundburyNatureProject #wildflowerhour

Latest commentary from Stewart Lee - on the Reform candidate for the Makerfield byelection; and how the press has now normalised fascist language and symbols. Who needs Barack Obama when you can vote for a Reform candidate who dreams of sniffing arseholes? www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

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Latest post from @chrisgrey.bsky.social. Frankly depressing analysis of Burnham's plan to stick with the Blue Labour position Starmer has adopted to such disastrous effect. Brexit & Brexitism: A new national conversation, or just the same old ... chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-ne...

Heathrow made it to 32°C yesterday, bringing the current tally of May records to five. It's possible that a sixth will be added today, although 32.8°C is the current record from 1944.

Sorry 31.5°C recorded at 3pm, not 31.8°C. We'll have to wait and see whether it got a bit warmer or not. Still smashes the record.

Looks like Iver Waterworks has produced the record breaking heat for today - 31.8°C, beating the record set in 1944. That's five consecutive days where old records (between ca 70 and 100 years) for May have been smashed.

Another May record smashed. Whitechurch reached 31.8°C yesterday. Four day records in a row now for 2026.

'Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3C with a temperature of 33.7C. Unprecedented in its 211-year history. x.com/MetJam_/stat...

Looks increasingly like Ukraine is aiming to make the occupied territories indefensible and perhaps even uninhabitable for Russian military by constant interdiction of supply lines.

Another stonking hot day here, with 31.3°C, just a shade off the record (31.4°C) for the 27th, set in 2005 at Gravesend.